martinibuster
msg:937942 | 4:32 pm on Dec 11, 2002 (gmt 0) |
I don't use frontpage, but it sounds like you may have an "autocorrect" feature turned on. Dreamweaver has a similar feature. Perhaps go into your preferences section, find it, and turn it off.
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ScottM
msg:937943 | 5:45 pm on Dec 11, 2002 (gmt 0) |
When you add the link to a page are you 'cutting and pasting' it? I just tried it in frontpage and if you are copying from HTML, you will get strange errors like that. The workaround is to cut and paste to notepad and THEN cut and paste to frontpage (html view). I don't know if that's the problem or not...but if it is...that's a solution.
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pageoneresults
msg:937944 | 6:01 pm on Dec 11, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Actually, this is FP's way of writing valid code believe it or not. The ⊂ is the ascii equivalent to &sub... ⊂ = ⊂ = subset of I'm not sure why it is causing a problems as ascii equivalents are needed to validate. Maybe try this, escape the ampersand & a m p ; (no spaces inbetween & a m p ;) and leave the word sub so it looks like this... myid& a m p ;sub=mysubid& a m p ;blahblah. I'd escape all the ampersands in that string. If you still have problems, I'd talk to your affiliate partner and see why ascii equivalents are not working with their system. This is not my area of expertise but common sense tells me something is not right with the affiliate tracking software and ascii characters. P.S. As a side thought, what charset tag are you using? windows-1252 or something else? This would appear in your <head> if you were using one.
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martinibuster
msg:937945 | 6:15 pm on Dec 11, 2002 (gmt 0) |
| Actually, this is FP's way of writing valid code |
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Precisely why I deduced that FP may have an "autocorrection" feature that may need to be turned off. Pretty annoying.
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pageoneresults
msg:937946 | 6:20 pm on Dec 11, 2002 (gmt 0) |
It could be a compatibility setting which can be found in Tools > Page Options > Compatibility. But, since it was mentioned that no changes were made to the program, I kind of set that one aside. In theory, what FP is doing is correct. That url string won't validate with the ampersands. They need to be escaped. Unfortunately FP does not do this routine automatically. Since we are dealing with characters here, I'd look first and the charset tag if there is one. Then I'd look at the compatibility tab to see what I have selected in there which is usually... Both Internet Explorer and Navigator
4.0 browsers and later
Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0 and later Those are three most common settings in the compatibility tab.
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jimbeetle
msg:937947 | 11:01 pm on Dec 11, 2002 (gmt 0) |
pageoneresults - that's exactly what it's doing, returning the "subset of" character. Appended to myid that really screws things up. martinibuster - Frontpage formats and substitutes seemingly at its own whims. There is an "HTML Markup" feature for code you don't want FP to touch and am going to go with that. It works in the body and I'll find out if it works in meta tags in the head. All compatibility settings are basic, IE & NS, US-Western European encoding, etc. Just burned out the mouse on that machine and will check the charset after I take a walk over to Staples to pick up a new one. (Anybody ever run into a really, and I mean really, hot mouse before?) Frontpage has a way of doing its own thing, but still confused as to why this spontaneous change. Thanks for the leads. Will let you know what or if I find out anything. Jim
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